Today’s Woman Goes Red for heart each year to raise awareness of how heart disease impacts women in our community. In many cases, heart disease doesn’t just pop up when a woman is in her 40s, 50s, and beyond. The habits we develop as children are the foundations that...

The family took a 7-hour hike through the Vietnam Sapa Valley. Four months, eight countries, six small suitcases, one trip of a lifetime. These are the numbers involved when turning a dream into reality. Top: The family orders food from this eatery in Luang Prabang,...

By Megan Seckman When I toured West End School, located at 36th and Virginia Avenue, it had been Debbie Blair’s third tour that day. Despite the typical end-of-the-school-year-chaos — boxes of binders ready for storage, loads of laundry needing a wash, and hundreds of...

By Megan Seckman Director Kristina Davis Christensen, who has worked as a special needs coordinator and parent volunteer over her 15 years at Friends School, sat down to tell me about her students’ skills. At the core of the school’s mission are these values, which...

By Megan Seckman Here are five skills from West End School you can apply to your own kids at home. Table Manners. Each boy is required to put a napkin on his lap, properly use a knife and fork, keep elbows off the table, and sit up straight. If a woman enters, all...

By Megan S. Willman Louisville Classical Academy offers these five things you can apply with your own kids. Encourage them to take a risk. Try something new or delve deeply into something you love. Do it for the joy of doing it. Recent graduate Ruthie Drowin, says...